Monday, May 03, 2004

Just for fun, I cut and pasted the article from 20 Minuten about the FC Basel celebration into FreeTranslation.com and this is what it came up with:

«Vollgeil, finally closed we the cover»

The FCB is Swiss soccer masters 2004: thousands fans celebrated left out yesterday evening on the barefooter place the 10th championship of the red-blue. Around 18.05 clock, all dams broke: in the stadium in Thun, the fans stormed after the 2:0-Sieg of the FCB the lawn. In Basel, the those who stayed at home in the arms and bejubelten lay themselves the already expected championship of the FCB. «Vollgeil. Finally we closed the cover», was happy Miriam (21) before the Mona-Lisa-club in the stones. «Now it goes on the Barfi.»

Your thousands Basler did it same and about at 20 o'clock the place of a blue-red crowd of people was filled. The beer flowed in streaming. «Olee, olee, olee-olee-olee, FC Basel – Swiss master», sang the fans again and again and demanded loudly its heros – the master-team 2004.

When Benjamin Huggel entered around 21.30 clock more first the master celebration-terrace of the Stadtcasinos and welcomed the fans, was the disposition on the highpoint – the entire place was wrapped into dense smoke, illuminates by red torches. Entertainer Huggel let nominally celebrate the public each single participant. The fans received as thanks to champagne-showers. Many extended the master party after that in the Basler bars and clubs.